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sam henri gold

I think…I think I don’t give a shit about the camera at all. We’re hitting a point of diminishing returns for camera improvements. Low light is fine. Color repro is fine. Clarity is fine. People are just awful at taking photos.

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Brad Ellis

@samhenrigold I've seen enough SIGGRAPH talks to know that there is more water in that well. But might be limited by processing.

Григорий Клюшников

Phone cameras have been good enough for like 5 years now. CPUs even longer. At this point just give me a 4" modern-ish Android phone and I'll buy 10 of them to last me for the next 50 years.

The worrying trend about phone cameras though is that the post-processing sometimes involves object recognition these days (Apple is especially guilty of this). That's a huge no-no for me. That borders on "analyze what the user is trying to take a picture of, then use AI synthesize what that picture would've looked like if it was taken with a high-end DSLR".

Phone cameras have been good enough for like 5 years now. CPUs even longer. At this point just give me a 4" modern-ish Android phone and I'll buy 10 of them to last me for the next 50 years.

The worrying trend about phone cameras though is that the post-processing sometimes involves object recognition these days (Apple is especially guilty of this). That's a huge no-no for me. That borders on "analyze what the user is trying to take a picture of, then use AI synthesize what that picture would've...

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